Singer Katherine Jenkins hits out at online stalker

Katherine Jenkins sings the national anthems before a rugby matchMike Egerton/Empics

The classical singer Katherine Jenkins has vented her anger at an online stalker she says has been harassing her for more than a year.

Jenkins voiced her frustration as the Government announced a consultation on the law on stalking, to see whether the justice authorities are responding well enough to victims.

The singer’s persecutor has set up a fake Twitter account in her name and sent her taunting messages, she claims, such as inviting her to “bring out the dead daddy story again” — a reference to the fact that her father died of lung cancer when she was 15.

The glamorous mezzo soprano said that her patience ran out yesterday morning when the stalker managed to tweet in a question for her as she…

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